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Taiwan Homebuilt Weaponry

China

September 18, 2020

Asking the Right Question As China Rises

China is building its military, a recent Pentagon report to Congress argued , with the goal of becoming a "world-class" force over the next three...

Bonnie Kristian • RealClearDefense

Africa

October 2, 2020

Libya Is Trump's Latest Chance to End An 'Endless War'

It has been nearly a decade since the United States via NATO intervened in Libya with airstrikes contributing to the ouster and death of former...

Bonnie Kristian • RealClearDefense

Terrorism

October 2, 2020

America's War in Afghanistan: Fostering Anger, Not Security

A nighttime raid left a family home in flames. Two brothers and one of their wives were executed on the spot; the woman shot three times in the head.

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Pentagon

October 2, 2020

The Pentagon's Secret, Permanent Wars

Two months after the lethal ambush in Niger that killed four American troops in October, U. S.

Bonnie Kristian • RealClearDefense

Middle East

October 2, 2020

Riyadh's Bad Influence on Washington

“I express today our condolences to our brothers in Egypt, as a leadership and people, for what happened in the past days,” Saudi Crown Prince...

Bonnie Kristian • RealClearDefense

Veterans

October 2, 2020

Veterans and the Public Agree: U.S. Foreign Policy Isn't Working

Albert Einstein is almost certainly not to be credited with the cliched definition of insanity as “doing the same thing over and over and expecting...

Bonnie Kristian • RealClearDefense

North Korea

October 2, 2020

Trump Must Listen to Jefferson, Ike, and Reagan and Reject Preventive War

After recent months of continued North Korean weapons development, culminating in July in an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test and this...

Bonnie Kristian • RealClearDefense

Military Strategy

October 2, 2020

Stop Wobbling the Dominoes in Syria

The launch of World War I is infamous for its deadly domino line of alliances, crises, and escalations, and it is that labyrinthine history to which...

Bonnie Kristian • RealClearDefense
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Military Strategy

October 2, 2020

Ground War in Syria Would Be a Huge Mistake

As his spitballing press conference reminded us ad nauseam , President Trump is not ready to let the bygones of the election be bygones—and where U....

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Iran

October 3, 2020

Mideast Self-Reliance Isn't a Problem—It's Our Ticket Home

The desperate situation in Aleppo, Syria, has long been the subject of international negotiations, but in recent weeks the United States has been...

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